“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #105 “Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; …
Debate With Andrew Sullivan
Here is a notice from our college ministry, CRF. Christ Church’s college ministry, Collegiate Reformed Fellowship, is sponsoring a debate February 27th 7:30pm at the Univeristy of Idaho between Pastor Wilson and Author/Journalist Andrew Sullivan. The question to be debated will be: “Is civil marriage for gay couples good for society?” Notable UK Author, Peter …
Three Kinds of Accusation
The human heart is not divided up into watertight compartments, and thus it is possible to make obvious distinctions in how we respond to accusation without making absolute distinctions. That said, people are generally put on the defensive by guilt, shame, or fear. Obviously, more than one can operate at a time, but generally one …
A World of Right Reason
When the apostle describes a generic condition of unbelief, it is interesting how he does it. When we lived in unbelief, what was the atmosphere we breathed continually? “For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another” (Tit. 3:3). For …
God’s Gonna Cut You Down
Now if we come to the understanding that the devil is “the accuser,” and not God, what are we to make of the necessary holiness of God’s law? And how can we make sense of the Last Judgment? Doesn’t God run the Last Day, and not the devil? Go tell that long tongue liar,Go and …
Wisdom From Above #5
INTRODUCTION:The fact that this prophetic warning is located just on the threshold of God’s judgment of Israel in 70 A.D. does not prevent it from providing us with a number of useful warnings. They were told to look back at similar times of affliction in the Old Testament, and so we have two sets of …
What Draws Us All
The words of grace to us are centered in the phrase no condemnation. But this word from God is nonsensical unless it is understood in the context of the condemnation that could have been. Indeed, it has to be understood in the context of the condemnation that most certainly would have been had God not …
The Only Real Christian
The words of grace that surround this Table of grace are glorious words. The great Augustine once said that if God gave what He commanded, He could command whatever He wanted. This Table has conditions—the unholy are not welcome. This Table contains a promise—the unholy are most welcome. Scripture frequently assigns conditions to us. If …
I Mean, Think About It
“Rourke had delivered at least three babies in the back seats of cars and taxi cabs, and thought he was qualified to assert that there was nothing whatever that was natural about it. It was the craziest thing in the world. Women were the kind of people that people came out of, for crying out …
In Between
“She does not need to believe him to have superhuman powers or to be in any way invincible, but in order for her to be emotionally secure, she needs to know that in any threatening situation, he would be in between her and the threat, and that he would die before she did” (For a …